| Asked, burst open, extracted, or broke, as the ends of this puzzle's four longest answers | 93 |
| “Still, I’m imparting loads of useful information that I hope they’ll ___...” | 93 |
| Author of "Time's Arrow," 1991, a novel written in reverse chronological order | 92 |
| Antepenultimate and penultimate words of the penultimate sentence of a Shakespeare character | 92 |
| According to Han, "He's a card player, gambler, scoundrel.You'd like him." | 92 |
| According to legend, he spent decades in his mother's womb and emerged with a gray beard | 92 |
| Actor who delivered the line "Just when I thought I was out, they pull me back in" | 92 |
| “Maybe this study on sudden consciousness loss does need funding,” Tom whispered ___ | 92 |
| “You can’t be a real country unless you have a ___ and an airline”: Frank Zappa | 91 |
| Advice for the brokenhearted ... or one of four arrangements found literally in this puzzle | 91 |
| Author of "Save Your Job, Save Our Country: Why Nafta Must Be Stopped — Now!" | 91 |
| “Iggy, your stirring Duncan Hines batter has no relevance to our experiment on ...” | 91 |
| A scarab beetle with a heart-shaped mark on its wing covers was named after this adventurer | 91 |
| Athlete John who was the only person to play professionally with Bill Russell and Jim Brown | 91 |
| “Getting feedback from hospital occupants is a good use of funding,” Tom agreed ___ | 91 |
| Actress who said "Between two evils, I always pick the one I never tried before" | 90 |
| Answer to the old riddle "What's round on the sides and high in the middle?" | 90 |
| Attendance check, and a hint to the puzzle theme in the first words of the starred answers | 90 |
| Alabaman who wrote the Best Novel of the Century, according to a 1999 Library Journal poll | 90 |
| Architect whose epitaph says "Reader, if you seek his monument, look around you" | 90 |
| “Lord High Everything ___” (one of Pooh-Bah’s titles in “The Mikado”) | 89 |
| Artist Krasner, for whose portrayal Marcia Gay Harden won an Oscar in "Pollock" | 89 |
| Ali G asked him, "Has journalists ever put out tomorrow's news by mistake?" | 89 |
| Art punk band whose members appear as tophat-wearing giant eyeballs, with "The" | 89 |
| Actor who played Hamlet in a 1964 production deliberately staged to look like a rehearsal | 89 |
| Age at which Jim Morrison, Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, Kurt Cobain and Amy Winehouse died | 89 |
| Alternative words used as alternatives for each other in this puzzle's theme answers | 88 |
| Annual cause of losing an hr.'s sleep hidden in this puzzle's 10 longest answers | 88 |
| Award Cillian Murphy was nominated for for the 2005 movie "Breakfast on Pluto" | 88 |
| Actress Long who still isn't married, which is a situation I'm keeping an eye on | 88 |
| Adopted last name of singer Anita Colton (it's pig Latin for what she hoped to make) | 88 |
| Actor whose debut film was "The Russians Are Coming! The Russians Are Coming!" | 88 |
| Actress Keanan of "My Two Dads" (who now spells her name with a Y, apparently) | 88 |
| Actress Polo who played a presidential candidate's wife on "The West Wing" | 88 |
| Actor with the memoir "Things I've Said, But Probably Shouldn't Have" | 87 |
| Actress Seydoux of the 2013 Palme d'Or winner "Blue Is the Warmest Color" | 87 |
| Actress in "Dracula's Daughter" and "The Invisible Man Returns" | 87 |
| Atlanta arena that hosted the 1988 Democratic National Convention, with "the" | 87 |
| Actor whose character said "Keep your friends close, but your enemies closer" | 87 |
| Author of the best-selling investment book "You're Fifty — Now What?" | 87 |
| Antelopes discovered that graze only at twilight; appropriately, they're called ... | 87 |
| “My father had a small estate in Nottinghamshire; I was the third of five sons” | 87 |
| Animator who created "Beavis & Butthead" and "King of the Hill" | 87 |
| Answer to "which Rogers and Hammerstein musical do you want to see and when?" | 87 |
| An automatic one injured Vince Coleman in 1985, forcing him to sit out the World Series | 87 |
| Animated movie with the tagline "See the world from a whole new perspective" | 86 |
| Actor Fogler who won a Tony for "The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee" | 86 |
| Adviser once described as "a cross between Henry Kissinger and Minnie Mouse" | 86 |
| Appropriately named monthly of the National Puzzlers' League, with "The" | 86 |
| Animated skunk Le Pew [get the 2013 rate at avxwords.com while it lasts - sign up now] | 86 |
| Answer to the folk riddle "Over the hills, over the hills / Goes a fur coat" | 86 |
| Approach to arithmetic that emphasizes underlying ideas rather than exact calculations | 86 |
| Actress Martha who played Sinatra's love interest in "Some Came Running" | 86 |
| Author of the children's book "Tell Me Again About the Night I Was Born" | 86 |
| Author who used the pseudonym “Alcofribas Nasier,” an anagram of his full name | 86 |
| Antiperspirant that comes in "Fresh Blast" and "Fast Break" scents | 86 |
| Author of "Paris in the 20th Century," an 1863 novel first published in 1994 | 86 |
| Alcohol rumored to spoil after opening, in an "Arrested Development" episode | 86 |
| Atmospheric condition in which there is no visibility both horizontally and vertically | 86 |
| Actor Butterfield who will play Ender in the forthcoming "Ender's Game" | 85 |
| Award given to the creators of Dos Equis' "The Most Interesting Man" ad | 85 |
| Actor who said "Some people have youth, some have beauty—I have menace" | 85 |
| Activity that in five years you're going to be embarrassed you were so into today | 85 |
| Actor/public speaker who often began "Unaccustomed as I am to speaking ..." | 85 |
| Assassin code name of Bridget Fonda's character in "Point of No Return" | 85 |
| Arthur ___, banker in Lemony Snicket's "A Series of Unfortunate Events" | 85 |
| “... and use later in brilliant research papers, giving me something to ___!” | 85 |
| Argument that doesn't exist until created for political gain, in modern-day slang | 85 |
| Author whose initials can be anagrammed into the second word of his most famous work | 84 |
| Artist with the #1 albums "Relapse" (2009) and "Recovery" (2010) | 84 |
| “The surgery department’s budget may have to be slashed,” Tom stated ___ | 84 |
| Author who co-wrote the screenplay for the Beatles' "Yellow Submarine" | 84 |
| Aktors and akattresses who definlly say thare lines better with a couple in 'em? | 84 |
| A Bond baddie had them in "The Spy Who Loved Me" and "Moonraker" | 84 |
| Aptly, the Nobel Prize for Physics was presented by this actor who played Zorro, ... | 84 |
| A. Egg and matzo meal B. Tomatoes and cheese C. Corn or barley D. Chickpeas or beans | 84 |
| Annual English sports event that begins today, and a hint to this puzzle's theme | 84 |
| Avant-garde filmmaker Paul whose "Rebus-Film Nr. 1" is a crossword puzzle | 83 |
| Alla ___ (dipped in beaten eggs, then in breadcrumbs/Parmesan, and fried in butter) | 83 |
| Author who wrote "Did you ever stop to think, and forget to start again?" | 83 |
| Arkansas town that calls itself the "Quartz Crystal Capital of the World" | 83 |
| Arizona Indians whose name comes from a phrase meaning "I don't know" | 83 |
| Author of the stories collected in "Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque" | 83 |
| Annual three-day music festival named after the California Valley it takes place in | 83 |
| Actress who famously said, "Acting is the perfect idiot's profession" | 83 |
| Award-winning author of "The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian" | 83 |
| Actress/cartoonist roomies' mailbox label that sounds like an airport employee? | 83 |
| Athlete who's been #1 on the Forbes China Celebrity 100 list six years in a row | 83 |
| Answer to the old riddle "What lies flat when empty, sits up when full?" | 82 |
| According to folklore, European city that was named by the mythical giant Antigoon | 82 |
| African city of 4+ million whose name means, literally, "haven of peace" | 82 |
| Awarder of a thimble to Alice, in "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland" | 82 |
| Actor who spoke the line, "I'd show him who was king of the forest!" | 82 |
| Actor Nick who was #1 on VH1's "40 Most Shocking Celebrity Mugshots" | 82 |
| “In my Soil Mechanics class, the professor droned on about how to use ___” | 82 |
| Aerosmith video in which Alicia Silverstone's middle finger was blurred by MTV | 82 |
| Alcohol brand named after the businessman who rebuilt the company post-Prohibition | 82 |
| Austrian physician who lent his name to an English word ending in "-ize" | 82 |
| Author of "Down Came the Rain: My Journey Through Postpartum Depression" | 82 |
| Actress Loretta who starred in the "Cagney & Lacey" television pilot | 82 |